Moving to another mastodon instance is simple. It takes 2-3 clicks and off you go. I think what you say was probably true in the past, but today, nothing could be simpler than taking your stuff to another instance.
Why bother with a VM? When I'm in that situation, I just run my stuff in the cloud and ssh to my machine, alternatively, ssh to my machine at home. Much more minimalist and light weight than a VM as long as your customer allows outgoing ssh and/or connections to a tor/i2p hidden service.
Yes, another one for tor. You can restrict exit nodes to certain countries, if you need to read something only available locally. Works for most, but not all, sites.
Yes, it is the single most popular vector for scammers to fleece old people. Great! Add to that, that your identity is controlled by banks, not the government, and that banks can terminate you without any due process, and complaining can take weeks if not months, and there is no guaranteed positive outcome.
No thank you, I'll take no ID over ID any day, and at worst, a physical plastic card over a bullsh*t digital solution that is used to lock you out off society.
Sweden is really the worst possible approach, is authoritarian, and hands over the power to the banks controlling the digital ID system.
Banks and fintechs turned really brazen with triggering invasive AML/KYC requests without any legal basis, even more invasive than tax offices. Nonchalantly freezing and locking funds and accounts. They oftentimes require the latest version of smartphone app working only on recent smartphones. I don't want my digital identity to depend on them.
Hah... europe will become king of the world! We'll tax and regulate ourselves to enormous wealth! No... jokes aside, europe is a failed union, and will slowly collapse or decompose in a decade or two.
Then we can again focus on trade, lowering taxs and creating value. The only thing that is happening now is that the political class has become enormously rich through bribes and by having managed to phase out democracy and enriching themselves.
US was not destroying its own international position for 200 years. Their international position went all the way up in that period. It was also not destroying its own quality of life for 200 years.
there is nothing to be destroyed if there is no "good reputation" in the first place
You are seeing from European perspective but I can assure you that there is people that seeing western country is a "bad guys" from these region because Western power always trying exert their influence via trade deal, regime change, fund armed group etc
Right now, sitting in Europe, wishing that Brussels was just ever so slightly more functional, you look out into the world and see how everyone else is doing, and you're reminded that things isn't actually that bad.
I always feel like this is elitist (oh, look at your silly little problem, I risked death, and you are complaining about rent.
And I always respond with, yes, not everyone risked death, and they do have a right to complain about rent. You did it because of your own free choice.
Another aspect of this silly stance is that if we always compare with death, nothing ever gets done. It is perfectly reasonable to have everything, and still aim towards other goals. If one is not risking life, you are well justified in complaining about the traffic jam.
It’s less “look at your silly problem” and more “how can I fully appreciate life.” I see that perspective as grounding, not elitist. The previous commenter’s dad is not telling others what to do or how to live; he’s deciding for himself how he wants to live.
Anytime you wake up in the morning and are able to get out of bed and stand up is a beautiful day.
I've never wanted to transfer my brain into a machine. Isn't it wonderful to feel the floor under your feet? To smell the air? To taste a steak? To hear the bees? To see the leaves? To hold your partner?
Every day is an opportunity to enjoy your life.
I don't really know what kind of a man I am, because I have never volunteered to face death.
Amen! Philosophy is a personal and life long process of improvement. Everyone, knowingly or not, is a philosopher. Just the act of living is philosophy. If possible, live consciously and do not go through the motions. It will deepen and enrich your life, and hopefully, bring meaning into it.
1. You're extremely rich.
2. You see it as a learning opportunity or you enjoy helping, without thought of financial reward.
What will happen, at the slightest whiff of success, is that professional investors and VC will swoop in at a moments notice, and dilute you to pieces.
In the end, you will have paid for the company while it was small, to get it started, and then the VC:s will snatch it away by diluting you. Hence nr 1 above, but be prepared to spend!
Future investors can negotiate liquidation preference and participation terms that will give them a bigger part of the pot than their % ownership during a “liquidation event” I.e. basically any outcome other than an IPO will trigger those rights
But aren't the terms of a SAFE that you'll get the same terms as the best terms (MFN) offered to investors in the next round, up to a cap?
Seems like you get just as diluted by future rounds as the professional VCs that will make up the next round, if you get the same terms?
FWIW I don't think angel investments make any financial sense but see them as a minor chance of upside and a significant way to help and connect with people.
Sure. But "liquidation events" are not the events that give you the wins. The point of angel is to get in while the company is cheap. Dilution is part of the math.
But note that this is deeply unethical and amounts to denying people the right to self-defense, and by extension, denying people the right to freedom.
The only thing that happens when guns are denied is the rise of corrupt and totalitarian politicians, and that the common man is either oppressed by them or by criminal gangs. Enter guns, and the common man can defend himself against both, which is a blessing.
Thankfully it is now possible to print your own guns and build one easily, so this will become less of an issue in the future, when everyone, if they want, can carry concealed guns.
I live in a country with an aggressive gun lobby, and a ludicrously corrupt government that wants to create a fascist ethnostate. The gun nuts are largely on the side of the fascist ethnostate. I don’t think guns are the perfect defenders of freedom you think they are.
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